Did you know that more than 200 years ago a Neapolitan named Rafaela Esposito prepared a thin crust pizza with plum tomatoes, whole milk mozzarella, fresh basil and olive oil for the queen, Margarita? Probably not. But this is one of the useful titbits of information you are able to pick up from IL Patio’s menu, certainly one of the most extensive and ‘interesting’ available in Riga.

The new Italian restaurant recently opened on Barona street has all the accessible feel of a western chain. Indeed, there are now four IL Patio restaurants dotted around Riga, part of Rostik restaurant’s Planet Sushi and T.G.I. Friday’s network.